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Banks County Gazette. YOL. III.—NO. IT. UNDER THE ROSE. *. lie moved with trembling fingers From my throat the band of red. And a band of burning kisses His lips set there instead. Then he tied again the ribbon. “I will hide them, love,” said he, “And the secret of thy necklace None shall know, save thee and me.” It was just a foolish fancy, But from that day to this I wore the crimson ribbon To hide my lover's kiss. He has gone, and love is over. But this blade within my hand Still shall hide our secret kisses With another crimson band. —Anna Reeve Aldrich. Hound to Have Damaged Goods. There had been advertised what is commonly known as a “fire sale” in Philadelphia, but as usual the rush of customers soon purchased the en tire quantity of drenched muslin ad vertised. About one week after the sale a good housewife from the coun try entered the store and requested my aunt to supply her with ten yards of the damaged goods. She was told that the muslin ad vertised was sold nearly a week be fore, but that they were then selling as good muslin which had not been damaged at the same price per yard. The lady, however, refused to accept the answer, and was so persistent in her desire that my aunt was com pelled to take ten yards of the eight cent muslin to the cellar and rinse it in a pail of water, for which, wet as it was, sho received tho same price as when dry. The customer mean tune waited patiently and went away happy with her “damaged muslin.” -—Cor. New York Recorder. The Kliyengrs* Firnt Woman. The Khyengs of Burmah aro prob ably the only race or trilie of people that have any tradition of tho origin of the liumqn race that do not have a man or mule human being in some way connected with that important event. The Khyend Genesis opens in this wise: “In the beginning of the world, after the sun, moon and stars had appeared, the earth, by its own inherent power of productive ness, brought forth a female creature, which was called Hleeneu. She laid 100 eggs and 1 tatclied them in cotton wool, and from them sprang 100 b.u man beings, the progenitors of the different races.” The least that can he said of this curious belief is that it us a line illustration of the multiple theory as applied to the origin of the human race. —St. Louis Republic. Gold Coins In n Duck's Gizzard. I noticed tho other day a Peking duck that was moping about and making strange motions with its head. I decided from its actions that it had some foreign substance in its digestive organs and would conse quently die. 1 therefore resolved to make an examination and see what it was. On opening the duck 1 found, to my surprise, two pieces of gold and a cartridge hull. The gold pieces were too badly worn to tell of what denomination they were, but I think they must have been one dollar pieces. The cartridge hull was all worn away and gone except the head.—Cor. Atlanta Constitution. The New Womanhood. How shall we conceive of this new womanhood ? Neither as slave nor plaything, but helper and equal mate: coequal with man, in home, in school, in shop, in church, in court, in all human service, she has struggled into nearly all lines of business; she has become conscious of power, of ability to win place and competence. Evi dently she finds independence sweet; for more and more are woman assert ing themselves —as Lady Henry Somerset says, pursuing a vocation instead of a husband. They refuse to content themselves with simple ease, or luxury, or fashion. The needs of the needy tug at their heart-strings; they are awake to public abuses, their mothering instinct goes ont on all the lines. The new womanhood has work to do in the church, which no man will do in the church, work to do in government, which men have botched and bungled until the world may well despair. Are not the dead nations of the Orient the logical out come of government by man alone ? The new womanhood will not sub mit to pauperization. The effete no tion that woman must not earn her own bread is ready for sepulture. The old idea that a woman must depend on some male relative, even if her strength and mental ability far ex ceed his, is exploded. The obligation to place all her funds in the custody of her uncle or cousin, or any man who would accept them, is resting very lightly on the conscience of the sisterhood. In fact, womanhood, by virtue of the very subtle principle of progress—of upward and forward progress—of evolution, if you like by virtue of this principle, implanted in her nature by God, finds herself irre sistibly guided along paths undreamed of a century ago. And one of these is the path of self-respecting indepen dence. She has found that the purse means power, that, in order to attain mental liberty, spiritual freedom, she must be financially independent. The man who doles out her pittances, occasionally and reluctantly, feels like a benefactor; he enjoys the sen sation. But woman are growing more and more unwilling to play the part of perpetual infants; they demand recognition as co-workers, knowing that labor has money value, though it be not offered in the market.—Mary A. Ripley, in Woman’s Column. A Lost Opportunity. Deputy Marshal Chase, of the Portland police, has a collection of confederate bills, which he has had since his company left the front at the close of the war. In telling liow ho lost an opportunity for a success ful speculation, ho says: “They were being handed out to us all in unlim ited numbers. I took a few of them just to send home as mementos. When we got to Petersburg the bankets there were offering £0 or 25 per cent, for these bills. They thought that later on they would realize a good profit from their in vestment. I got rid of quite a num ber of tho bills and mado about thirty-two dollars out of the transac tion. I might have mado considera bly more if I only had taken more of them. But I think that the bankers did not get anything out of their bargain.”—Bangor Commercial. How Cheap Fans Aro Painted. Tho cheaper fans are painted by wholesale. Along strip of silk, or other material, is tacked to a board, many fans aro outlined upon it, and then half a dozen painters paint tie same subject on each fan, each painter laying a particular color on the whole set. Such fans cost only a few francs each. They serve to aid the flirtations of pretty French shopgirls or to tickle the peasant fancy in the provinces. Flower fans of the more expensive kind have found little or no sale here, and are not imported much. Many of tho cheaper fans, ranging as low as five or six dollars each, are ornamented with painted flowers, the work of unknown artists. —New York Sun. Ingenious. An ingenious individual has hit upon a scheme whereby ho expects to make a large fortune. He will advertise largely: “For half a crown I will divulge a a plan whereby halfpenny postage Stamps can be mado to do the work >f jienny ones.” A would be millionaire wrote him on the subject. He got for an answer. “Use two of them.”—London Letter. Why lie Set a Time. Little George (to account collector) —Father isn’t in, but he told me to ask you to call tomorrow. Collector —He will ho at homo then, will he? George—No, sir. He’ll ho out. Tb-that’s why he told me to tell you to call then. —Exchange. An Affable Greeting*. An instance is related of an old lady much given to forgetting names, who was informed by her daughter that the name of a gentle man who was to call on her was Mr. Cowclry. She was drilled in a nemory lesson on the name, and t. hen the person in question called rose to receive him quite at her ease: “Your name is veiy familiar to me,” she said affably. “Good even ing, Mr. Drycow.”—London Tit-Bits. The Cause of Crime. The most prolific cause of crime, using the word to include all sorts of acts which violate either the laws of God or man, is human misery and despair. That man who, try as he m y, gets further and further from the possibility of making a comforta ble living for his wife and children broods over his troubles and is goaded by anxieties for his loved ones until his mind is in such a state as only to need some specific, tangible tiling to make him a raging madman. If he commi's a terrible crime while thus morrally irresponsible, the iron grip of tiie law is fastened upon him, and he must pay its penalty because our HOMER. BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: AUGUST 30,1802. poor finite law simply deals with the overt act and cannot take into con sideration the motives underlying it. The half starved waif steels a loaf of bread with which to satisfy his body’s demands for sustenance. He is driven to theft l>y hunger, but the court simply considers the theft— hunger is not a matter for learned consideration. A poor girl struggles bravely to win her way in life and live in purity and respectability. She bears up against adversity and the ceaseless stitching of her machine adds another to the many noises of the busy city. Poverty stares at her on every hand— misery and despair are her constant attendants. At last her weary spirit ceases to struggle, and when the river gives up its dead her lifeless body may be seen at the morgue, worse still another soul be bartered for bread. In the one ease societty hurriedly passes over the account of her death and with a shudder turns away from its contemplation. In the other she is outlawed by the brand of shame. In neither case are her sleep less nights, tired fingers, aching eyes and miserable surroundings taken into account. To remedy these evils the causes must be removed, never so long as effects flow from causes will the evils be remedied till the causes are removed. Men aro not criminals and women are not vagrants from choice, but from misery, hunger and despair. There is no anarchy in full stom achs, no revolution among prosper ous and happy people. French revolutions are not the pro duct of thriving and well clad nations, but they are the direct result of turn ing human beings into slaves and beasts of burden. Let those in power but do justice and these things will vanish from tut" face of the earth to he remembered only as a frightful nightmare of a dark and clouded past. —The Truth. Is Money a Product of Nature? The argument that government can’t make (that is, create,) money, since the veriest simpleton in the land knows that the individual who at tempts to do so will be railroaded to the penitentiary for counterfeiting, carries with it the implication that money is a product of nature. Out side of man, in his individual or col lective capacity, the only generative force capable of transmuting the material things of earth into factors necessary for tho continued advance ment of civilization is nature. Then, taking the position that money is not created by law, compels the belief that nature, instead of being always the same staid, solemn, eternal, un changeable force that men have always believed her to be, is, in the matter of money at least, one of the most fickle and flighty creatures im- aginable; for she not only' creates a difierent kind of money for every difierent government in the world, but she creates many different kinds of money of different denominations for each government. Thus gold, silver, copper, nickel, brass, paper, etc., are eacli employed by her in the manufacture of money. In this country she gives us dollars, dimes and cents; in England the denomina tions are changed into pounds, shil lings and pence; in Germany into kruetzers, guilders, pfennings, etc. Such assumptions as these are calcu lated to make nature appear ridicu lous. The truth is, nature has no more to do with the creation of money than she lias to do with the creation of a cotton gin or grain-bind er, or any one of the thousands of things into which men have changed the material provided by her, into things for their own comfort and advancement. She provides the mat ter from which everything is made. But the fact that governments haVe for a long time assumed that the proper material from which to make money is gold or silver, no more con stitutes those metals “natural money” than does the fact that Cain slew Abel with a club constitute the man- ner of Abel’s death the “natural” way to die. Upon the theory' that “age and custom” justify the use of silver and gold as money, can be justified the existence of crime, human slavery, corruption and skull duggery of every' kind, because these things* are, all of them, older even than the use of money ot any kind. And yet, one of the strongest arguments, or, at least, one of the strongest points always lingeringly and lovingly dwelt, upon by our “wise men” in their advocacy of these metals as the only proper money material, is the fact that their use has been sanctioned by' custom and made venerable by age. To a mind capable of consecutive, analyti cal thinking, it would seem that the very fact that the bare-legged barba rians of thyusanGs of years ago used those metals for money materials is of itself sufficient to cast a deep, dense shade of suspicion over their real utility for that purpose. The incon trovertible truth is that money, law ful money, the tender of which can not be refused without prejudice to one's claim, is a creature of man in his aggregate or governmental capac ity, and the only milk in the finan cial eocoanut is involved in tho ques tion as to how the wealth-producers of tho nation will profitably avail themselves of this governmental func tion.—National Economist. A iNovv Wrinkle. A rather impecunious party met a friend who was sporting anew suit of clothes. “Hello 1" exclaimed the former, “where did you get those now clothes?” “Hush! it’s a secret. I’ll tell it to you if you’ll promise not to give it away." “I’ll promise." “You know there is anew doctor n town?” > “Yes.” “Well, I sit in his office every >.• -rning to make the public believe lie ’aas got a patient.”- Texqs Siftings. Why Ho Preferred to Die, In the year 1500 a preacher by tho name of William Bonington threw himself from tho parapet of the Church of St. Sepulcher, in London. Ho left a note which gave as his reason for committing tho act “that he wanted to go to the theater that night, but did not have tlio money wherewith to purchase the ticket of admissiou. ” —Exchange. Tho subtleties of the Japanese mind aro illustrated in nothing more strikingly than in their rules for the arrangement of flowers. Not only does every flower which a bouquet or a garland contains symbolize something, hut its position with re gard to the other flowers is signifi cant. Dotted about all over Britain there are somewhere about 3,000 observers who send p to London periodical reports of weather experience on hills and in valleys, on moors and heaths, in towns and villages. Report comes from London of tho discovery of the thistle as an article of food for man as well as beast. When boiled it is not unlike delicate turnip tops. Have night garments that will in sure the utmost degree of repose provided of courso that bedding and ventilation are also properly ar ranged. The costliest toy on record was a broken nosed wooden horse which belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte and was sold a year or two ago for 1,000 francs. A Homelike Place. Little Dick —Mamma, may I go over to Johnnie Black's to play? Mamma—Why do you spend all your time at Johnnie Black’s ? Little Dick—His mamma hasn’t any new carpets.—Good News. In a Prohibition Town. A sign that was placed on a store door about forty years ago now adorns a Biddeford place of business and is of course obsolete in its pur port and should be discontinued at once. It reads, “Wines, ales, etc.”— Bangor (Me.) Commercial. The people and the newspapers that cry out against the lawlessness of labor strikes and strikers, and yet have no word of condemnation for the Pinkerton's and their assassins, do worse than “strain at a gnat and swal low a camel.” They show beyond a doubt that their sympathies are all on the side of might against aiglit. The wonder is that the American people have suffered the Pinkertons to carry on their unlawful business as long as they have. A standing army of more than 30,000 men main tained by capital to do its bidding is a menace to the very name of free dom, and a disgrace to any people The Pinkertons must go.,—Western Herald, Girard, Kans. A Fairy Talo from Arabia. Anent the ease with which sen tences aro twisted and their mean ing colored by a stroke of the pencil, I am reminded of an oriental legend, related to me recently at a dinner party by Mile. Azeez, the Syrian lecturer. Mile. Azeez is an accom plished linguist and of course reads and speaks Arabic with nattye fluency. “The Arabic language,” said she, if I quote her correctly from memory, “is peculiar. There are in some instances as many as seventy different words to express the same meaning, and then, too, tho erasure or addition of a dot will entirely re verse tlio meaning of a whole para graph. There is a legend in Syria to the effect that ono of tho king’s min isters once took a dislike to the queen, and wrote a slanderous epi thet concerning her on tho walls sui’- rounding the palace. “The authorship was fixed upon him, and the king's soldiery took him into custody. His lioad was in dan ger. As lio was being conducted to tho audience chamber the escort passed tho place where ho had pub lished tho slander on tho queen. He hurried and covertly erased a single dot. When arraigned he declared that it had been his intention to flat tor the queen, and begged his sover eign to send learned men that they might read the inscription aright. This was done, and tho wiso men, in stead of a calumny, found a poem dedicated to tho beauty and amiabil ity of her majesty.”—Now York Letter. Two Lovers of llaiTties. Foreign art journals contain an ac count of a bargain mado by a rich Russian noble with an eminent French artist. The rich man bought a picture which tiro painter bad just finished, and which was considered his masterpiece, giving a higher price than was asked for it on condition that the artist should never make a ci >py or retain a photograph or even a study of it. The Russian could not enjoy this great work of art unless he knew that no other human being could share the pleasure except at lii3 will. It hangs in a chamber of his palace. Oddly enough, tho subject of the picture which lias excited this feel ing is the Madonna and Child. A companion story to this is that of a wealthy “self made” American, whose chief pleasure was for years to accumulate autographs. His col lection embraced letters from almost every English author, the original manuscripts of an essay by Elia, ono of Dickens’ novels and a lecture by Thackeray. His delight in touching and looking at these treasures was keen. They were friends and com panions to him. Ono day lie gathered them all up and sent them to a free college for poor boys. “Itseemed criminal in me,” hesaid, “to keep this great pleasure to my self when thousands might he made glad by it.”—Youth’s Companion. A Great Discovery That Slumbered. In earlier times ono of the greatest discoveries of the ago was made by a man polishing amber, which was one of tlio most highly prized of ancient ornamental gems and found only among the crown jewels of royalty or in the caskets of princely rulers and w'ealtky people dwelling in pal aces. The man, it was said, felt a mighty shock—a violent tremor thrilled through his hand and arm while he was rubbing the stone. He may have exaggerated tlio account, or the authors of the many versions may have done so, but tho facts were there. That man had struck tho trail of an electrical discovery. But for cen turies this suggestive truth of slum bering power slept. No experiments were tried—science was in a state of repose. Experiments suggestive of electric discoveries were tried, with out attempts to further investigation. —New York Telegram. Class-Legislation of Course. The sub-treasury is class legislation is it ? Well how about the prodig ious loan to the cotton exposition at New Orleons? How about the silver coinage law ? How about the whis ky legislation ? How about the pen sion robbery ? How about the loan to the centenial? llow about the world’s fair loan ? Yet to loan the SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. government’s money to the farmer who pays all taxes from which the government obtains revenue is uncon stitutional class legislation. Ain’t we consistent folkes? Bear It In Mind. Present events seem determined to give the people an insight into the political parties. Everybody knows that the republican party lias furnish ed Mr. Carnegie all the tariff protec tion he wants, and the democratic party furnishes him all the bayonets he wants. One party furnishes the tariff and the other the bayonets. Heap that in mind. Progressive Farmer. A SMART BOY. - A Clever Method of Catching Geeso In hi) Arid Fort ion of tho Country. The Southern Pacific overland train was rumbling along between Colton and Pomona. A party of half a dozen commercial drummers in the smoking car were telling yarns and interesting tho other travolers. “I want to tell you a little story about my boy out party near unto tho desert in San Bernardino county," said a sunburned rancher who sat near and had been hearing the drum mers tell some pretty tall stories. Tho old man removed a pipe from his mouth and began .- ' ‘My boy is purty smart in his way, lommo tell you, and none of ’em gets tho best of him. T’othor day he rigged up a kite. It was the biggest kite I’d ever sat eyes on. It was about six feet wide an twice as long, an on the top of it my ooy placed a few green branches, which he’d cut from an oakwood tree. ‘What’s them fur?' I inquired. ‘Never you mine, dad,’ says ho. ‘I know what I’m about.’ And, by gosh, ho did. Ho flew that kite up in the air an stood watchin it fur a long time, when I says to him, ‘You’d better pull that thing down now an get to yoiu- work.’ ‘Lemmo alone, d;td,’ he replied. ‘l’ll git tkar yet.’ “And, by gosh, he did. The next time I took a look at him he was u-linnlm i’i on the kite line, with a snuio ou ills face as big .. ... fr. r. When the kite came down near tho ground I saw what he was a-smiliu at, and it was enough to make a body smile too. Any you fellers want to guess what was on that kite?” None of the drummers wanted to guess and the old man went on with his story: “Well, sir, a-settiu on tlio top o’ that kite was eleven of the purtiest wild geese ye over saw. Yes, sir, eleven on ’em. You se.e, the geese was flyin north purty thick, and my boy got up this sekemo to catch ’em. There ain’t many trees out our way, an after a fat goose has been flyin purty steady all day ho gits kind o’ 'tirodlike an looks for a place to set down an rest. That’s just vvliat my boy was couui.in on when lie built that kito. “By ofTerin tho goose a place to stop an rest, an by smearin tho top o’ tlie kito with tar, so tlioir feet would stick so fast they couldn’t get away, ho did the business. But it was fun pullin them geese in. Just as fast as we could send the kite up and pull her down again we got from ton to a dozen geeso, an in four days we captured six carloads, au I’m taking them to Los Angeles to sell. None o’ you smart story tellin fel lers don’t happen to know what wild geese is wuth now in the Los Angeles market, do ye?”—Pomona Progress. Score On© for tho Pedagogue. “You have some fine ducks this morning,” said the kindly old school master to a poulterer, “Yes, sir, all fresh today.” “What is tho price!" “You can take your choice, sir. I have them at all prices.* “Well, I want to give my hoys a treat, but I do not want them to D(T too tender. There aro a dozen hero pick out four of the toughest.” The poulterer obeyed. “Here, sir, you have four of tlio toughest birds • in my shop.” “Thank you, sir,” said the school master; “1 11 take the other eight.” —Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. A Taking Sign. A tradesman of Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, has a big sign stretched across the front of his store bearing in large black letters the legend, “Dealer in Green Goods.” He sells vegetables and general garden track, but if the sign doesn't bring him many customers eager for unhal lowed speculation there is no virtue in appealing to their inclinations.— New York Sun. The Gazette will be sent from now until December 15th for 25 cents. Now is the time to read up.